True Deifm, the Bafis of Chriftianity: OR, OBSERVATIONS on Mr. Thomas Chubb's Which fhew, 1. How far the evidence of Mr. Chubb's Chriftianity feems to arife from his last writings. AND II. Some of the blemishes and errors of thofe his writings, are pointed out. To which is prefixed, An ESSAY to demonftrate the truth and certainty of a particular providence. By CALEB FLEMING. LONDON, Printed for the AUTHOR; Sold by J. NooN, at the White Hart in the Poultry, J. ROBINSON, at the Golden Lion in Ludgate-freet, and R. WILLOCK, in the Royal Exchange. 1749. 130. f. 25 AN EPISTLE DEDICATORY To the CHURCH of PROTESTANT DISSENTERS, who meet in BartholomewClofe; and to my other worthy Friends, in, and about London, the following Sheets are humbly infcribed. TH HIS DEDICATION is intended to exprefs the grateful fenfe which I have of your friendShip. A Treatife which exhibits the Ideas I have been able to form of the Chriftian Jcheme, in a fomewhat intensive view; thought would appear with Some propriety thus prefaced with the public teftimony of my esteem and veneration of you. The countenance you give a proteftant-diffent, is from a conviction of its being the cause of TRUTH and LIBERTY. Which conviction is rational; fince fuch diffent imports, "that you own no other "Law-giver or King in the Church of God, befides Jefus Chrift: or as it is an open denial of pow"er or authority being vefted in any man, or body of men on earth, to make and to enjoin rites of Christian worship, and terms of Chriftian fellowShip. And becaufe one may fafely predict the lofs of liberty, in Britain, to be the certain confe 66 * See the Diffenting Gentleman's three Letters to Mr. White. |